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V UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS CRONIN, OF KINGSTON, AND GWILYM EDWARDS, OF EDWARDS- VILLE,PENNSYLVANIA.

FUEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 498,629, dated May 30,1893.

I 1 Application filed December 9, 1892. Serial No. 454,562. (Nospecimens.)

To all whom it mag concern.

Be it known that we, CORNELIUS CRONIN, of Kingston, and GWILYM EDWARDS,of Edwardsville, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fuel,.of which thefollowing isa specification. v

Our invention is in the nature of a new artificialfuel to be composed ofseveral ingredients, and molded or compressed into bricks, blocks, orlumps, for use in stoves, furthe culm together in a mass, being itselfalso combustible. The ground limestone by its refractory mineral naturegives a brilliancy to the fire, and the petroleumis used for promotingcombustion and facilitating the igni tion of the mass. These ingredientsare ground together and molded or compressed into blooks,-lumps, orbricks.

To facilitate the adhesion and mixing of the mass a variable proportionof water may be 35 added depending upon the dampness of the I culm.

Having thus described ourinvention, what; a we claim-as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

A composition of matter for the production of artificial fuel consistingof culm,w0od pulp, ground limeston e,and crude petroleum, mixed in orabout the proportions described.

CORNELIUS CRONIN. vGrWILYM EDWARDS.

Witnesses:

G. W. BOONE,

W. M. VAN HORN.

